A funny article about the Planet Of The Hats.

My people are obsessed with hats. Almost everyone wears them, and a lot of their identity is wrapped up in their particular style. Some people always wear cowboy hats, for instance, and others wear bowlers, and each think the other is exceedingly funny-looking, and would never consider switching. They have elaborate ceremonies for their children in which they confer the hats, and kids often go to special schools once a week where they learn about the history and significance of their hats. Everyone has the importance of hats drilled into them from birth to death.

The article sounds ridiculous until you substitute ‘religion’ for ‘hat’, at which point it just makes religion look ridiculous. If, at 33, I professed to believe in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy, then people would think I was more than a little odd, and quite possibly delusional, yet they’d be quite happy to acknowlege a belief in god, which frankly is exactly the same thing (though your parents don’t play god in real life).